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Doing Tim's film is always goi...

Doing Tim's film is always going to be the most pleasure. Let me just put it that way. So, without drawing favorites one way or the other, getting back with him and doing Mars Attacks! was certainly a special treat.

Danny Elfman 51 quotes

You hear the beginning of a me...

You hear the beginning of a melody, you should kind of know it's going to lead down this path. It should start feeling like a friend, like familiar.

Danny Elfman 51 quotes

You have to write a good score...

You have to write a good score that you feel good about. At least, you're supposed to. But, if the director hates it, it ain't going to be in the movie!

Danny Elfman 51 quotes

Nothing bad ever happens, why ...

Nothing bad ever happens, why should I care?

Danny Elfman 51 quotes

I'm so happy dancing while the...

I'm so happy dancing while the grim reaper
cuts, cuts, cuts, but he can't get me.
I'm as clever as can be, and I'm very quick but don't forget;
we've only got so many tricks.
no one lives forever.

Danny Elfman 51 quotes

You'll never get me into a tux...

You'll never get me into a tux. Not until I'm dead and I have no choice because that's what the undertaker put me in.

Danny Elfman 51 quotes

It often feels like a tremendo...

It often feels like a tremendous amount of work is required to get an idea moving forward, like pushing a train uphill. But at a certain point, the thing takes on its own momentum, and takes unexpected turns. So it's that feeling of holding on, rather than pushing it, that is the most exciting thing. It's that need to occasionally bounce off the walls, letting anything happen for any reason, and having nothing to guide you that is the joy.

Danny Elfman 51 quotes

I really look forward to revis...

I really look forward to revisiting this body of work which has been such a huge part of my life and bringing it to the concert stage. And the idea of performing some of Jack Skellington's songs from The Nightmare Before Christmas live for the very first time is immensely exciting.

Danny Elfman 51 quotes

Or certainly I would need time...

Or certainly I would need time - which I would love to have but there almost never is on a film - to just spend a week with a roomful of guys laying down these patterns.

Danny Elfman 51 quotes

It all depends on the director...

It all depends on the directors. Working closely with a director is the main job of a film composer. Interpreting what he perceives as a color, an emotion or mood is very abstract. A director tells you something he wants and then you have to run back.

Danny Elfman 51 quotes

For me, writing something in t...

For me, writing something in the spirit of Halloween is like Mother Teresa writing on charity and sacrifice. It's just second nature to me.

Danny Elfman 51 quotes

This is Halloween, everybody m...

This is Halloween, everybody make a scene Trick or treat till the neighbors gonna die of fright It's our town, everybody scream In this town of Halloween.

Danny Elfman 51 quotes

It sounds really stupid, I hat...

It sounds really stupid, I hate making cosmic comments like this but, I just let it do what it wants to do.

Danny Elfman 51 quotes

Sometimes on a film you just b...

Sometimes on a film you just become taken with the fact that, all right this is as rough as it gets, but I'm going to support my general and I'm going to do the very best I can for him because he's a good general and I like him.

Danny Elfman 51 quotes

You're allowed to rip-off anot...

You're allowed to rip-off another score so close that it's ridiculous. In my opinion it's ridiculous, how closely one can just rip-off a score that happened a year or two earlier.

Danny Elfman 51 quotes

You have to write a good score...

You have to write a good score that you feel good about. At least, you're supposed to. But, if the director hates it, it ain't going to be in the movie!

Danny Elfman 51 quotes

You have to nail the right ton...

You have to nail the right tone because sometimes when you just see his films cold, you're not quite sure. It's the same in - I'm trying to think of other directors with a similar sense - David Lynch's films, Tim's films, some of Cronenberg's stuff

Danny Elfman 51 quotes

There's kind of a cool feel th...

There's kind of a cool feel that happens every now and then. I guess that feel is the thing that makes the score its own score. But, I don't know exactly what that is. So, it's hard for me to answer that question.

Danny Elfman 51 quotes

The first thing I do is lay ou...

The first thing I do is lay out that melody and figure out how it has to hold here and then finish to land here, because you know in advance you're going to want the melody to catch four things in the action.

Danny Elfman 51 quotes

The beauty of a main title is ...

The beauty of a main title is that you establish your main theme and maybe a bit of your secondary theme. You plant the seed that you're going to go water later in the score. And so, having that removed just made it so much more difficult.

Danny Elfman 51 quotes

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